Month: November 2019

We woke at 7 am after a good night’s sleep. The free breakfast received a 3-star rating out of 5, even though the breakfast room was too small for the hotel. It seemed more like a swingers speed dating event, with the room filled with small round tables each with four chairs. Every time one…

Wow, we really can’t believe we have now been on the road for fifty days. Even though the hotel was just across the road from a busy railway line, we both slept well. Actually, I think we are starting to get used to the sound of trains passing all night long in our different ways….

Not the best night’s sleep for absolutely no reason. There was no road noise, no railway line nearby, nothing, yet we didn’t sleep well. The alarm went off at 6:50 am, but it was 7:15 am before we ambled along to the breakfast room, the smallest breakfast room to date, comprising of a table and…

For the first time on the trip, we were woken to coyotes in the middle of the night, which Jeff had warned us was a possibility. While it was annoying to be woken, I guess not many people that live in Scotland can make that claim, so we put it down to experience. We woke…

Not much sleep at all last night. While the service station is very quiet for a service station, probably due to the fact that they literally add a 100% surcharge to everything due to being so remote, our neighbour was shouting at the sky most of the night. By the time the alarm went off…

It was a restless night with the sound of the trucks coming and going from the service station, so the 5 am alarm was not a welcome noise. Packing was relatively quick, so we were ready for the road before 6 am. Deborah enjoyed her evening hot chocolate so much she needed another fix before…

A great nights sleep and a long lie-in, getting up at 7:30 am. We weren’t expecting much from the breakfast, but even that low expectation was surpassed with a doughnut in a sealed plastic bag and lukewarm coffee. When Deborah asked for some hot water the owner filled a mug with cold water and placed…

The alarm went off at 6:00 am after a very peaceful, but far too short a night’s sleep. We are getting far too used to going to bed around 9 pm, so hitting the pillow close to 1 am made it very difficult to get out of bed. We packed and went into the kitchen…

We woke after an amazing night’s sleep in the most comfortable bed of the trip, that is apart from the 2cm thick self-inflating mattress we use when sleeping in our tent. We also had the longest lie in of the trip to date, even longer than our rest days, as we had a short 30…

The alarm went off at 6 am on the final day of our Route 66 adventure, although it was closer to 6:30 am before we entered the kitchen to be welcomed by Ken and Neil, who were clearly a little more awake than we were. Susan joined us shortly after and we all set down…

Resting, chilling, sleeping, washing, bike maintenance, body maintenance and planning… next stop San Francisco!!

Three great nights sleep in a row in a very comfortable condo in Santa Monica, so it was a struggle to get out of bed knowing tonight would almost certainly be sleeping in a tent. Most of our packing was already done, so after a breakfast consisting of the last of our granola crumbs, a…

It was never going to be a quiet night. I could have thrown a stone over the railway line on to the road in one direction and onto the crashing ocean waves in the other, and I’m rubbish at throwing stones. When the alarm went off at 5 am it was still dark outside, but…

The 4:58 am express train rendered the 5 am alarm pointless. With Julie and Imka no doubt still sound asleep just a few metres away, we packed up camp on tiptoes, although there is every possibility Nelly could have done it quieter. Today was one of those rare days where we started the day without…

Without the alarm set, we slept until 7:15 am, so we had 15 minutes to dress in order to be the first at breakfast. We needn’t have bothered as the coffee wasn’t ready and all that was on offer were three pastries in a sealed plastic bag and a jug of orange juice. Back in…

Apparently I woke Deborah from one of the best night of sleep in weeks with a sneeze, although it didn’t wake me up and I didn’t feel sneezy when I did, so I’m concluding it was a sneeze dream. We had both agreed that this was a near-perfect motel room, with a big fridge, a…

We were both still a little sleepy when the 5am alarm went off, even though we both slept well for over 10 hours. It was still pitch black when we rolled out of our tent. With the homeless chap that we had spoken to last night snoring in his tent just a few metres away,…

We seem to be on a roll and had another great night’s sleep even though the motel was close to a busy road. That said, we weren’t woken by the alarm at 6:30am, but by a plane taking off and flying directly over the motel just before that. With the motel reception area being the…

It was a cold night, so it was another one of those mornings that it was a struggle to get out of our toasty warm cocoons. With our gear quickly packed away and loaded onto our trusty steeds, we headed in for a hot drink with Sally before she headed off to help a friend…

Wow… if I didn’t mess up on the count we have been on the road for exactly 10 weeks. Our last night in a tent for a while wasn’t the best with the thunderous sound of the waves crashing on the beach, a distant foghorn blasting every 4 seconds and one of our fellow bikers…